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In this paper, we study some new “candidate” asymmetric cryptosystems based on the idea of hiding one or two rounds of small S-box computations with secret functions of degree one or two. The C” scheme of [10] (when its n i values are small can be seen as a very special case of these schemes. This C” scheme was broken in [11] due to unexpected algebraic properties. In the new schemes, those algebraic properties generally do not exist. Nevertheless, we will see that most of the “new” algorithms can also be broken and we deduce some very different cryptanalysis of C”.
However, we were not able to find the cryptanalysis of all the new schemes, for example for two round schemes. An interest of the paper lies therefore in the highlighting of these new schemes. The main practical advantage of these schemes is that secret computations are easy and can be performed in low-cost smartcards.
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Patarin, J., Goubin, L. (1997). Asymmetric cryptography with S-Boxes Is it easier than expected to design efficient asymmetric cryptosystems?. In: Han, Y., Okamoto, T., Qing, S. (eds) Information and Communications Security. ICICS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0028492
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